Latvia’s Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) has barred two food consignments after laboratory tests at the border found residues above European Union limits.
In green tea from Armenia, batch number 8810, weighing 57.6 kilograms, testers found residues of tolfenpyrad, a pesticide banned in the EU. The same shipment also exceeded the maximum permitted levels of lambda-cyhalothrin and thiamethoxam.
A separate 22-tonne load of mustard seed from Kazakhstan, batch 248K-2013, contained more erucic acid than the maximum allowed. Erucic acid is a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in oilseed crops such as rapeseed and mustard, and in oils pressed from them.
The service said neither consignment may be distributed. Both will be destroyed or sent to a third country. PVD has filed a notice in the EU Rapid Alert System.
PVD is a state body under the Ministry of Agriculture. It supervises and controls the food chain and veterinary medicine in Latvia. The findings were published on 18 October 2026.